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• Patients in smoking ban challenge 

Patients at a top security psychiatric hospital are launching a human rights test case challenge over the Government's smoking ban.

Detained patients, or former patients, at Rampton in Nottinghamshire say the ban, which came into force last year, is a "disproportionate interference" with their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Three patients are all seeking judicial review before Lord Justice Pill and Mr Justice Silber at the High Court in London.

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